An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
Maurice Maeterlinck

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Maurice Maeterlinck

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
Maurice Maeterlinck

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
Maurice Maeterlinck

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
Maurice Maeterlinck

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
Maurice Maeterlinck

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Maurice Maeterlinck

How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
Maurice Maeterlinck